No I am not pregnant. I'm talking about this show on TLC. I'm like addicted to this show. When I first started watching it I wondered how any woman couldn't know they were pregnant but the more I watch this show the more I wonder if this happens to more women than one would think. I'm finding out about all the symptoms of pregnancy that we aren't taught about. I know I wasn't taught this stuff in school, like:
1) some women get a heightened sense of smell when pregnant. I knew some smells would make women nauseous but I didn't know about the heightened sense of smell.
2) it's not good to take hot baths or get in the sauna while pregnant cause it could raise a baby's core temperature.
3) some women don't have any symptoms what so ever while pregnant - no weight changes, no cravings, no heartburn, no morning sickness. Some of the women lost weight or only gained 15lbs. That fat women are likely to loose weight is something I know because of the knowledge the pregnant women here have shared, but it should be something all women should just know.
4) if the line reading on a birth control test is faint it doesn't mean you aren't pregnant, it means you should take the test again and/or go to a doctor and do a blood test.
You could be pregnant but test negative on a birth control test if you have been drinking a lot of water.
5) spotting gets mistaken for a regular menstrual cycle. I knew you could spot for the first trimester but not the entire pregnancy. Gaa.
6) every pregnancy is different - okay this one I knew but the shocking thing about this show is that quite often the women on the show have already had two or three kids and even after all that experience they still didn't know they were pregnant. Some women attributed the symptoms to the onset of menopause, but no they were pregnant.
there's other stuff I can't think of like the kinds of things that would make a pregnancy high risk or low risk, or even what really happens when menopause hits other than hot flashes - or even that menopause is something we are supposed to treat. But anyway, watching the show also makes me mad. It seems like this is stuff every woman should know and boo on whoever is responsible for keeping what should be common folk knowledge away from women for so long.
Anyhow, I am utterly fascinated with this show and felt like sharing.
1) some women get a heightened sense of smell when pregnant. I knew some smells would make women nauseous but I didn't know about the heightened sense of smell.
2) it's not good to take hot baths or get in the sauna while pregnant cause it could raise a baby's core temperature.
3) some women don't have any symptoms what so ever while pregnant - no weight changes, no cravings, no heartburn, no morning sickness. Some of the women lost weight or only gained 15lbs. That fat women are likely to loose weight is something I know because of the knowledge the pregnant women here have shared, but it should be something all women should just know.
4) if the line reading on a birth control test is faint it doesn't mean you aren't pregnant, it means you should take the test again and/or go to a doctor and do a blood test.
You could be pregnant but test negative on a birth control test if you have been drinking a lot of water.
5) spotting gets mistaken for a regular menstrual cycle. I knew you could spot for the first trimester but not the entire pregnancy. Gaa.
6) every pregnancy is different - okay this one I knew but the shocking thing about this show is that quite often the women on the show have already had two or three kids and even after all that experience they still didn't know they were pregnant. Some women attributed the symptoms to the onset of menopause, but no they were pregnant.
there's other stuff I can't think of like the kinds of things that would make a pregnancy high risk or low risk, or even what really happens when menopause hits other than hot flashes - or even that menopause is something we are supposed to treat. But anyway, watching the show also makes me mad. It seems like this is stuff every woman should know and boo on whoever is responsible for keeping what should be common folk knowledge away from women for so long.
Anyhow, I am utterly fascinated with this show and felt like sharing.
